Street artist emic (web) visited Titanic Men’s Club (Fb) in 2024 to give an indoor tutorial on painting art on walls and the group moved outdoors in 2025 to paint this mental-health message on the wall of the Connswater Community Centre.
The group also has a large board on the Greenway – see This Is the Crew.
For the NHS board, see The Glorious Dead. For the Somme board, see The Shipyard.
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“Chest, Heart & Stroke – Improving lives across Northern Ireland since 1946.”
2026 is the eightieth anniversary of the Northern Ireland Chest, Heart & Stroke Association. It was founded on June 14th 1946 as the first Northern Irish branch the National Association For The Prevention Of Tuberculosis (previously the National Association For The Prevention Of Consumption And Other Forms Of Tuberculosis) and in 1959 became the Chest And Heart Association and in 1976 the Chest, Heart & Stroke Association. The Stroke Association (web) was formed in 1992, but there remain the NI (web) and Scotland (web) CHS associations.
The landmarks, from left to right (top to bottom) are: Carrickfergus castle, Grand Opera House, Titanic Centre, the Harland & Wolff cranes (Samson and Goliath), Carrick-A-Rede rope bridge, St Peter’s pro-cathedral, Mussenden Temple, Devenish Round Tower, Scrabo tower, the Giant’s Causeway, Dunluce castle, Gosford castle, the Peace Bridge.
Painted by Visual Waste (web) on the shutters of NICHS headquarters at the junction of Bruce Street and Dublin Road. With support from Linen Quarter BID (web).
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Smiley-faced flowers on the shutters of Donegall Pass Community Enterprises (web).
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Donegall Pass began life in the late 1600s as a lane-way (loning, loney, loanen) made by one of the early earls of Donegall (the first three of whom were all called Arthur Chichester) through what was then Cromack Woods (Library Ireland). The woods are remembered in local street-names such as Walnut Street, Elm, Street, Pine Way (which are all included in the mural), as well as Cromac Street itself.
Clara Copley was born in Rotherham, moved to Liverpool, and then to Belfast c. 1900, where she lived for about fifty years. Her career was a colourful one that included running a fish-and-chip stall, an amusement arcade, a waxworks, a theatre, and a boxing ring, which was initially unlicensed but made official in 1936, when Copley was aged 70. She retired to a house in Donegall Pass where she died in 1949; there is a ‘blue plaque’ at the site (with an incorrect date of birth, faithfully reproduced here) in her memory. (DIB)
Apsley Street, south Belfast, opposite In Harmony With Nature.
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“Bridie McBrearty (née Murphy) 1929 to 2024. A woman of devotion to God, family and country. Her light shines on within us.”
Bridie McBrearty passed away at home in Rathowen Park in June 2024 (Derry Now) and a plaque in her memory has been added below the mural to her son George, who was shot by the SAS on May 28th, 1981 along with Charles “Pop” Maguire, both of the IRA. On patrol in Creggan with two other IRA men, McBrearty and Maguire pursued and a car whose driver they suspected of being an SAS soldier and eventually stopped it at the bottom of Couch Road/Southway at the edge of the Brandywell. The driver shot McBrearty as he approached the car and Maguire was shot by the driver and/or by other undercover soldiers from 14th Intelligence who emerged from two other cars. A third volunteer was injured. (Lost Lives 2330)
The “Crann Na Poblachta”/”Tree Of The Republic” – a silver birch – was originally planted in front of the previous mural to George McBrearty mural in Rathkeele Way (see Freedom Fighter For The Republic) (Derry Journal). Both that mural and this one were painted by ‘Bogside Artist‘ Kevin Hasson.
There is a plaque to McBrearty & Maguire near the spot where they were killed on Coach Road/Southway (see M01544).
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“Consent matters”, “Stop killing our sister”, “Lads, let’s be the generation that stops it”, “Enough is enough”, “Real men respect women”, “No means no”, “Silence is violence”.
Painted by Peaball (web) and boys from the Hillcrest Trust Youth Club (Fb), in conjunction with the Foyle Women’s Information Network (web) and their “End violence against women and girls” initiative (described at FWIN) and with support from the Executive and Strabane District Council.
Fountain Hill, Gobnscale, Derry
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This is the new mural to Sister Clare Crockett, replacing the previous mural seen in All Or Nothing!! The new mural was dedicated on April 16th, on the tenth anniversary of her death, and a mass was said in the nearby Long Tower church (Derry Diocese | Derry Journal).
Crockett was born in Derry in 1982 and died in Ecuador in 2016. This mural does not have the information board (and “Sister Clare’s Prayer”) that the previous one did; for information, see the previous mural or the other Sister Clare mural, in Shantallow.
Painted by UV Arts (specifically Ray Bonner) (web) in Deanery Street, Brandywell, Derry.
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A variety of different flowers, including daffodil, flax, and orange lily, are arranged in a green vase representing Ireland – so described (ig) by painters Peaball (web).
Distillery Close, Waterside, Londonderry, replacing Age Is Only A Number.
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Here is a gallery of painted flowers and birds found on the street furniture (electrical sub-stations, a bus shelter, the gate-posts to Gort An Easpaıg) in Creggan, with a variety of positive messages: “Grow with the flow”, “Bloom bright”, “Nurture your roots”.
The paintings are by Peaball (web). The sparrowhawk and falcon at Bishop’s Field were painted for last year’s (2025) Féıle (Derry Journal) and the bird on the bus shelter for Féıle 2026.
Iniscarn Crescent/Fanad Drive/Linsfort Drive, Creggan, Derry
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This emerald claddagh, flanked by two robins, was painted by Peaball (web) in Central Drive, Creggan, between two other pieces of street art (by Friz and emic) and so removing the last blank wall for graffiti at the entrance to the Bishop’s Field sports centre – see previously Victory To The PFLP. A gallery of anti-Agreement boards is still on the main exterior wall of the centre – see Stand Up And Speak Out and Support Republican Political Prisoners.
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